This Week in Cardiology

Renal denervation, the obesity paradox, JACC and the FINEARTS trial of finerenone in HFpEF, a setback for a PFA system, and coffee are the topics Jon Mandrola, MD, covers this week.

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I. RDN

• CMS https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/view/ncacal-tracking-sheet.aspx?ncaid=318
• Messerli https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.09.1244
• Filippone https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2023.05.010

II. Finerenone

• FINEHEARTS -HF NEJM https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2407107
• FIDELIO-DKD https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2025845
• FIGARO-DKD https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110956
• Why Have We Not Been Able to Demonstrate Reduced Mortality in Patients With HFmrEF/HFpEF? https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.08.033
• Regional Variation TOPCAT https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circulationaha.114.013255
• Time from WHF Subanalysis https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.09.004
• REDEFINE - https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06008197
• Health status paper https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.09.023
• Obesity subanalysis https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.10.111
• Kidney outcomes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735109724102525
• Kidney outcomes 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.11.020
• Kaul editorial https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.11.024

III. PFA Setback

J&J Halts Varipulse Field Ablation for AFib

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/j-j-halts-varipulse-field-ablation-afib-2025a10000j8

IV. Coffee

Stop the Coffee Studies https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/883709

• Coffee drinking timing and mortality in US adults

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